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Contents OUR achievements – Strategic Priority 2C Key Performance Measures: Specific Outcome 2c Specific Outcome Measure Result 28 (Plant Conservation policy) 29 (ARCUE Strategic Plan) 30 (Threatened species recovery plans) 31 (Germination trials) Review and launch of updated Policy for Conservation of Plant Biodiversity completed Delivery of specified goals and outcomes in the ARCUE Strategic Plan 2008-2011 Staff participated in relevant working groups and recovery teams Number of species for which germination trials were conducted An interdivisional working group reviewed the 2002 Policy for Conservation of Plant Biodiversity. The replacement policy, Environmental Stewardship Policy, was approved in April 2011 and will be launched in late 2011. Consultancy services carried out by ARCUE increased compared to 2009–10. There were 24 projects producing an income of over $897,000. (See Specific Outcome 29 for further details.) Plant Sciences branch staff participated in the Borya mirabilis, Pimelea spinescens, Asterolasia asteriscophora subsp. albiflora, Southern Wimmera Threatened Species, Grampians Region Threatened Species and Helmeted Honeyeater recovery teams. Translocation and population reinforcement projects for some of these and other threatened Victorian species used plant material produced by Horticulture branch staff. Plant Sciences branch staff made a presentation to the Australian Network for Plant Conservation’s translocation workshop held in Melbourne in May 2011. Approximately 122 species have been tested for viability and germination requirements. 32 (Monitoring of threatened species) Species continue to survive and flourish Conservation management programs and monitoring continued, including monitoring of Naked Sun Orchid Thelymitra circumsepta. 33 (Caledonia robinsonii translocation project) Project outcomes delivered Weed management was carried out, as was data collection on leaf emergence, flowering, pollination and capsule production. page 80
Contents OUR achievements – Strategic Priority 2C Specific Outcome Measure Result 34 (Display wild-collected plant species) Areas planted with indigenous plant species are maintained to high curatorial standards Indigenous plant species are considered and used where appropriate when developing areas of RBG Melbourne Victorian indigenous plant species were planted into the Rare and Threatened Species Beds, Australian Forest Walk, Herbarium Bed, and Conifer Border. 35 (Environmental weed education, eradication and management) A collaborative project with the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) for a molecular identification tool for stipoid grasses, which pose a biosecurity threat for Victoria, developed A molecular identification tool for stipoid grasses was developed and used to identify batches of Mexican Feather grass, thereby thwarting a potential threat to Victoria’s biosecurity. 36 (RBG Cranbourne remnant vegetation management program) Conservation Zone vegetation maintained at ‘high quality’ status Management strategies were implemented including a grassy weed control program and prescribed burns conducted. (See Specific Outcome 36 for further details.) 37 (Grassy woodland weed control) Vegetation survey data shows a reduction in the cover abundance of grassy weed species Environmental weed control continued; however, due to competing priorities, vegetation survey data collection was insufficient to determine abundance trends. 38 (Global Strategy for Plant Conservation) Priority plant identifications provided in a collaborative effort with DPI to assess and monitor the spread of new and emerging weed species The Plant Identification and Information Service provided the DPI with priority identifications of suspected new and emerging weeds. 39 (Millennium Seed Bank and Victorian Conservation Seedbank partnership) Number of species for which seed has been collected as part of the Victoria Conservation Seedbank initiative (measured against previous years) In 2010–11, the Victorian Conservation Seedbank sent 239 seed lots (74 of them new) to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Duplicate collections are held in long-term storage at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. In 2009–10, 164 seed collections were made, and in 2008–09 165 collections were made. Royal Botanic Gardens Board Victoria Annual Report 2010–11 page 81
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